ABSTRACT
Many children have auditory perception difficulties due to an overload of sensory stimulation from their environment. The following games aim to train children's ability to react to auditory signals and focus listening attention on auditory stimuli. The games listed as auditory discrimination exercises also facilitate the development of general listening skills. The games are looking for noises together, Clapping names, name echo, alphabet names and puppet mess. Many of these auditory differentiation games require words containing specific sounds or sound sequences. Perceiving and differentiating noises and sounds is practised through a variety of activities which ultimately aim to improve articulation and, to some extent, sentence formulation. If you are unable to think of enough words immediately, simply take a dictionary or encyclopaedia and look up a given initial letter. As with all the other games, the activities aim to stimulate as many senses as possible in order to provide essential 'basic training' for the brain.
